Political_ Resolutions- adopted la the
- Army.
So much having been said by the aboli
tionists about the feeling in the army in
favor of the administration
_and its meas•
ures, it may be useful, and indeed neces
sary, once in a while to give the public
the other side. We have long since ceas
ed to be troubled by
. army resolutions
published in the admmistration press,
knowing' that the privates have little or
nothing to do with getting them up or
passing them, and that they are principal
ly the work of abolition and of very weak
kneed demoCratic officers, who have." ax
es to grind" aCthe head,quarters_of the
army. 'Whenever we hear directly from
the privateinna non-commissioned officers
we hear a tale very different from that
told in speeches and resolutions for publi
- cation in the Lincoln, press; for instance,
4pmething like this:
Resolutions representing the real sentiments
of Co. E, 1490 . Regiment, V.
Camp near Belle Plaine,"Va.,
*arch, 22 , 1863;
Whereas, an effort has been made by a
certain party in the Noith to - obtaii) the
moral influence of the'army in the field:in
support of a political rinciple whiet.
should„ and can only be . , decided by the
people in their sovereign capacity at the
ballot-box : and whereas, the command
ing officer of the 149thY. P. has, without
due notice and procesS, imposed a set of
resolutions upon us, the principles of
which we cannot endorse and sustain:
Therefore, Resolved, That we are in fa
vor of a vigorous prosecution of the war,
for a restoration of the'Union, the Consti-
tution and the authority of the laws—and
for no other purpose.
• Resolved, that we consider the attempt
to, accomplish anything further by force of
arms as a dangerfts precedent, subversive
of the rights of the people, and contrary
to the letter and spirit of the Constitution
—and that we consider it our duty to
frown upon every attempt to intimidate
the free action of the people of the loyal
States on any subject pertaining .o
the
- _political-condition of the country. I
- Resolved, That we are opposed to the
emancipation proclamation of the first of
of January, 1863; as an uncalled for and
illegitimate proceeding',-whichlas proved
disastrous to our cause, as well as subver
sive of the principles of a republican form
of government.
Resolved; .That efforts of certain men
in the North to obtain the real sentiments
of the people North and Sotlith, in .a gen
' eral convention, are conciliatory in their
influence, and are destined to produce
beneficial results, if properly respected by
the admintstration.
Resolved, That while we earnestly and
anxiously desire: a return-of peace, yet we
are not so slavishly attached to it as to be
willing to accept it on any terms; nor in
deed can we accept any, thing short of a
restoration of the Union anal!, recog:ni
. lion of the supremacy of the C9nstitutton
aiid the laws.
• These being our sentiments, we heretin•
to affix our names.
[Signed by the men of the co.]
From the 126th Ohio regiment, a gen
tleman who was present writes as follows:
"The .126th Ohio was ordefed=out on
parade without arms, iii the snow, to heir
the resolutions read. The gentleman says.
he was not more than ten feet • from the
officer who read them, and ill that he
could hear- the officer say, was, that the
• resolutions had been passed by the officers
and that the men must vote for them too.
Just'aS he commenced reading' them, a
t . band 'pf _the New York regiment corn
rnencid playing, and a locomotive whis
,
tladefi - ar about ten minutes, so that the
men did not hear'ten words read. And
to show the interest that the soldiers took
g in them, he says, while the reading was
on, they' amused themselves by
sake wing. snow-balls at each other. He
,- 17 ,..reS the men when they returned to •their
:to? . the Iv.—
„ Th i e •eaaing of tne resolutions? •
d _ ri. , i eeir reply was—they ' didn't care a
otutio And yet we will be told these res
ment, rt
is were passed by the entire regi
unanimously. What htimbuggery."
soldier of the 61st Illinois writes,:
me of the crimmissioned officersrnet
some days since=none others being
:ted in the room—and drew up a set
,olutions, `one of which , condemned
linois Legislature, but, tieing so coi
up with words, it was hardly dis
; beaides, some of the resolutions
very' good. And, as they were all
on as one, large numbers of the
pted for, them, not knowing - what
:y were voting for. The vote, was ta
ken on dress parade. After the adjutant
had readithem, and the commander of the
regiment ,had exhorted all to vote for
theirr, he requested that all who voted
should come to a ihoulder arms at the
word of command. When he gave the
command, it is true that many obeyed it.;
but half of them knew not what they
were voting for. Some shouldered. their
arms. because others did, and afterWardi
admitted that, they did not kn w for what
.it was done, saying if the vote w •Iy
taken by ballot they would go against the
resolutions. But, when shoulder -straps;
court-martials -and military penalties are
sosnumeivus, upon the least pretence, up
on the rank and file, the soldiers have to
submit to the example as well as the di
rection of their officers. Under such cir
cumstances men would submit to - such
resolutions Whose private opinions were
directly the reverse, and, were they not
bound in the bondage of military desPo
• •
tism, - they, would assert their true senti
ments in public as freely as they do is pri
vate."
•
A private of the 30th lowa, who went
into the army an abolitionist, sends the
following: - s
lyeheard down here that the vOldiers
in Keokuk had torn down the Constitution
office. I think they had better have been
doing. somethilT, else. I hope they won't
go to fighting -m lowa. - People in lowa
don't know anything about soldiering to
what,we do-down here. -* * * I
will tell you that the negroes would be
better off with their masters than if they
were free. - lam for. letting -the black ras
cals stay in the South - with their masters.
You.know I was a republican when I left
home, but now I am a Democrat. •I don't
Say this because youiare a Democrat, for
I wrote the same. home.' I wish that some
of the abolitionists that raised, or helped
raise, the war, had to go - themselves."
Lieut Edward R. Dunegan, company
K, 125th Pennsylvania volunteers, whose
name
,was signed toproceedings publish
ed in the Telegraph, denies laving signed
them, and sends with his denial a certifi
cate from . Capt. Wallace, one of the secre
taries, that his, name " was used without
his or consent.", This we think
is the .case in many instances, and goes
very far to prove that army resolutions as
prepared 'by -the officers for the press are
the veriest humbugs.
orttrost,,Pmorrat.
L J. GERRITSON, - - Editor.
" 1 4- d: 1cf6.9
*HE UNION. AS lilt' WAS;
Before abolltion, sec'ession,e!c, iaturbed its,hannony
THE CONSTITUTION AS IT IS;
Enforced and respected in all sections of the country
InThe kontro Independent Repub
lican of last week!makes the astounding
charge that A:J. G j erritson spent the past
Winter in travellhig through the State
organizing- secret, treasonable
.societies
which are designe4 to :aid the' rebels in
overthrowing the Government ; and that
the House of Representatives employed
and paid paid Grerritson for that purpose.
In justice to the public, the House,- and
ourself, we,talcelthis means of respectfully
emanding that the editor of that paper,
üblish, at an 'early daY, the authority he
had, if any, for making so Serious an alle
gation, together with reasons'for so doing.
Unless ,this request be promptly and prop=
erly complied with, we,shall insist that the
charge against us,—a more injurious one
could not be made—be unequivocally
withdrawn and repudiated by its author.
The *l4lit Regimeit P. 7. ,
This reginient, ihade up of Bradford
and Susquehanna, boys, was in the fight
at -Chancillorsville, May 3d, for nearly
three hours, and out of 443 men, 237 are
killed, wounded and missing. Lieut• Col.
G. H. Watkins is worinded and a prison
er. In Co. K, put two men were witiout
a bullet Mark. We append a list of the
casualties in the comnaniaa from this
-enmity:
" Co. H, Capt. Tr - LEL—Billed : Lieut..
L. 0. Tyler, J. C. Darrow.—Wounded
-Capt. 'C. lir,Tyler,- arm ; Lieut. J. G.
Guile, back; Corp. P, E. Quick, leg;
Corp. J. Hays, leg; Corp. A. H.,Decker,
.shoulder; G. W. Hewitt, arm; Charles
, Avery, arm; Chas. Bnokstaver, leg _ ; Adel
bert, Corwin, neck; H. D. Carey; J. M.
Eckert; Charles Perkins,lead; Wme H.
Peet, leg; W. Tarbox, abdomen • W. G.
'Thornton, abdomen ; aMes Mackey, arm;
Horace Roberts, foot; Theron Palmer,
hand. Missing: Corp. F. Fargo; David
Tarbox ; Jacob Palmer;• Mama ,Wiles.
Co. F,. Capt. Beardslee.—Wounded :
Sergt. R. H. Sent,. leg; Wm. H. Wolk
tle legi Corp. A. J. Roper, leg; G. R:
Ressegm, hand; Jerome Davis, loot; El.
W. Steadman, neck; J. B. Adams, wrist;
P. I. Bonner, arm; J. H. Burr{ shoulder;
A. J. Baldwin, face Hiram arm;
A. Doughty, groin ; E. M. Frenclf,ishoul
der ; D. S-Goss, hand ; Francis Hawley;
R. S. Locinris,:body ; M. McDonald, body ;
G. M. Sweet, bead; L. N. Tiffany, leg;
J. V. Tennant, ,thighl C. H. Tripp, leg;
C; C. , Milworth, -leg. Missing: Nelson
Coon, Lewis Moss ,. Henry , Melody, 'C. C.
Nichols, W. E. Osborn; 0. H. -,Trow
bridge? Daniel Vanauken, Jacob Whit
,
,Honesdale must , be. overrun and in
the control of traitors. On Saturday of
last week when the news came that Rich-
Mond had fallen,no demostration was had,
but on Sunday, Idler ; the report had been
cotitrafficted, cannon were fired, the bells
rang," steam whittles blown, &el From
a quotation in another coltmkn headed,
"Union League Loyalty ' ''. the reader can
discern thisecretofthe motive that caused
inch Sabbath-breaking acts at the time
when the community -was stricken with
grief at our recent disaster,
Union Leaps LOput,y. -
The friendsnf the abolition , cluhi called
Union Leagues sometimes. complain that
we oppose them. We have frequently
given good reasons for. opposing them ;
and the best reason , for such opposition
is found in the dobtrines advocated, by
leaders of the Leagues. .specimen
of this modern . loyalty, we quote a speech
made before the Union League .at Hones
dale, recently, by an honored member,
Mr. Minor :
He said in substance that the. present
was no time for talk. The only language.
acceptable or appropriate now- was such
as Gen. Hooker was thundering from the
mouths of his cannon in Virginia..He
was no admirer of this Administration,
but it must be backed up to the lait man
and the last cent. The . President was
weak and vacillating; .the heads of the De
partments were, imbeciles, and the leaders
of our armies coWards and traitors. So
much the greater reason why they should
be sustained. _Re had sometimes thought
that. Abraham Lincoln was the innoitited s
of God, raised up in this crisis to serve
.His purpose in the destruction of the slave
power - of the United- States. He was
thankful that such men, (weak, vacillating
imbeciles, • cowards and traitors) had been
'laced at thelieadsof public affairs. Had
resident Lincoln Wen fit for his position
the rebellion would
s have been crushed in
six months ; had the commanders of our
Armies been , other than cowards- and trai
tors the war wouldliaye, ended at Bull
-Run ; but the Union would bare been re-,
stored as - it was -with - the institution of
Slavery still flourishing. At it was, how
ever, the war had ben protracted until
southern society was in the last. throes of
dissolution. To one man who died on
the_ field of battle, eight , were cut down
by disease ,in Camp.. Nothing short of
the utter annihilation of the southern peo
ple can satisfactorily end the war. The
delays occasioned by the imbecility of our
rulers, and-the cowardice and incapacity
of our offieern were effectually doing this.-
The object of the "Loyal 'League' was
to support the administration in its efforts
to subdue the rebels in arms, and to look
after the traitors here.
•
After closing his loyal speech Mr.
Minor asked that the list of league mem
bers be;haAded to every man," so that all
who reftited to sign could be marked as
traitors. As " loyalty" consists in endors
these league doctrines don't—connt qs
in ; putns down among these who " re
fuse to 'sign," even if abolitionists call as
a," traitor" for it. • •
tar'There is no movement- southward
of Hooker's army, and none is expected.
Many volunteers are moving homeward,
and others are to follow aS their terms of
service expire during the two coming mos.
How generally they may re-enlist we are
unable 'to state. , •
Extensi:Je arrangements are to be made
in 'the towns and cities to welcome these
war-wont heroes to' their homes, and it is
greatly to be regretted that a malignant
party spirit has attemped to destroy the
harmony of such occasions by prostituting
them to party ends, by the Republican
party leaders, who refuse to mingle with
the citizens, as usual, but insist that their
party league, alone, must take control of
the demonstrations. At Reading, the
city authorities ) composed of all. parties,
made the . usual arrangements, but the ab
olition league got up a sepafate affair and
sent messengers with false party stories to
Harrisburg to induce the officers of the
128th regiment to refuge all but their par
ty -reception.
'
The Hon. W. W. Ketcham declines
ps accept the appointment of Provost Mar.
ishal for this district. Hesstates that the
selection.was made without his knowledge
or consent. Ketcham's friends want him
"to run for-Governor, and this sharp_ gaine
of drow to' get him oat of his way fails to
succeed. We regret this, for - "the-People
of this part of the State," want Grow to
run for Governor, and again for Congress
next year. • •
fgr Beveral - "loyal" journals, which
"support the government," maliciously in
timate that, the false iumors about Rich
mond being taken, Hooker re-crossing the
river to again attack Lee, &c., were made
up by the administration to enable thoie
in League_ with it to speculate in gold and
stocks. A correction -of the false rumors
was suppressed by authority."
ArgeOur views in reference to a proper
conduct of the war are so well expressed
in the Indiana Address which we print on
first page, and as Stated in Mayor Sander
son's speech printed last week, that we
omit the publication of an article of our
own on that subject.
. .
PrThe "One who was there"- slander
about the Forest Lake meeting, is repeated
in the last Republican. These falsehoods
should be atl,ended
gar The Circus is coming, and• _ war or
no War, must be seen. The': Ilyptiopota
mils is an attractive feature. See the adv.
VirMaj. S. M. 13 . i ford of Luzern° co.
has leen - Oppointed Magna, vice
Ketcham, declined. •
FOR THE DEMOCRAT.
New Enema Liberty.
l "The wad of New EnglaiiTis synony
mous with Liberty. . ,She is the true foun
der, upon this continnt, of popular' goy
prnment."—Heary Ward Beecher.
The following , history will •t!how that
the Puritans, ,under ' John eottoni were
enemies of Religious Liberty :
The pilgrim fathers landed from the
Mayflower at Plymouth in 11320. The col
ony fonnded , by them; was entirely dis
tinct from the one which was estnbliihed
in 1628 at Salem, arid two years after re
moved its seat of operations to Boson.—
Both were soon aftermerged into one. In
1631 the General Court of Massachusetts_
ordered and agreed, that, for time to '
come, no man shall- be , admitted to the
freedom of this body politic, b4,such as'
are members of, of the eh - 06es'
within the limits a the same., In 1636'a1l
persons were ordered to take notice: that
the court do not and will not hereafter ap-'
prove of any Companies of men who shall
join in any pretended -way - of church fel
lowship, without they shall first acquaint
the magistrates of their intention,_ and
have tifeir approbation' therein. The same
year tEey banished out of their colony,the
true apostle of religious liberty whose his
tory will be giVtn hereafter. The next year
all Jesuits were banished, and it was pro
vided, that shOUld any one be caught-a
second " time in the colony, be `should be
put to death. In 1 . 638 A was ordered
that whosoever shall stand ex-communica-
ted for the:space of 'six. months, without
laboring in her, or hitn;li7i be restored to
the church, such person shall be presented
to the court,, and proceeded with by,ifine,
imprisonment or banishment , ; also, hat
whoever shall not voluntarily contribute
proportionably to his ability, with other
freemen of the same town, in upholding
the ordinances in the churches, shall be
compelled thereto by assessment and dis
tress to be levied by a public officer of the
town. This_ law was applicable ,to all,
whether a freenian or not. In 1630, an at
tempt was made in Weymouth, a join 14
miles from Boston, to gather a small com
pany of believers, holding different doc
trines from the established church. They
were all arraigned before the - general
cdfirt of Boston, wheie "One was fined
twentyponnds, and committed to jail do
ing the. pleasure of the 'court; one was
fined twenty shillings and disfranchised ;
another was fined ten pounds,. and all
-
were punished more or less. •
Thus, sass our historian, was establish
ed in the - outset - , the odious doctrine of
church and state, which, had thrown Eu
rope in disorder, had caused. rivers, of
blood to be shed; had crowded prisons
with innocent victims,. and had driven
some,of the pilgrims themsel=ves from all
that was'dear in their native homes:-J-
Their churches at home gave them no
power to establish religious tests. They
badlied from a common brotherhood, and
rallied- around a common standard for
113 r natatunlnotection and sat4y.
"
• This Union of church and state was
the viper in ,embryo, which led to the cru
el scenes of banishment of great numbers
of variable citizens, male and female, and
in the end to more horrid and appalling
tragedies of.delivering over to the hang
man's bloody fundtions, and sending from'
the isneble scaffold into the, eternal world
the. innocent victims of their sanguinary
laws."
In 1646- it was ordered that , wherescev
er the ministry of the Word is regularly
established, every person shall -thereunto
attend on pain of forfeiting five shilling
for every month, so long as he continues
in his obstinacy, and if any shallbehave
- contemptuously toward the word-preach
ed; he shall for the second offenceeither
pay Eve pounds into the publiqtreasury,
or stand two hours openly upon a block
four feet high, on a lecture day, with a
paper fixed on his breast with this "A
Wanton Gospeller," written in ,capital
letters. ,
In 1648 it was declared to be the duty
of the Magistrate - to take care of matters
I in religion, and to improve his civil au
thority for observing the duties, command
led in the first and= second table of the
church laws. The end of the Magistrates'
office is not only the quiet and peabeable
life of thertubject in matters of honesty,
but also in matters of - godliness. All her.
esy, all • contempt of the word preached,
are to be punished by civil authority. Af
ter proclaiming their)3elief in the princi
ples set forth by otheutiritans, that "lib
erty of conscience is the natu right of
man; that all men have equal fiberty to
think, choose and act for tli nisel*es in'
the affairs of the soul; that no :npinions or
sentiments in religion are c Inizable by
1
the magistrates, aid that !nen have as
good a right to their consciinces as to
their clothes' or estates," th' ''
_pass laws
giving the magistrates entire i ominion o
ver the consciences and souls c f every hu
man being -within their juriad don. !Thus
ic i
j
the 7 were rid content with stablisbing
their religion by the civil la and taxing
'the people to support it, but hey under
took to keep, out errors, d extirpate
heresies by the civil power 4).
We can, het but a faint glimpie of the
sufferings inflicted Upon. th people until
we come to the heart-rend ng tortures
which were inflicted upon Om Clarke,
Obadiah Holmes, - and others of their per
suasion. These men were a rrested in Ju
ly, 1651, in Lynn, for hold ' g religious
worship in a private house, ken. to Bos
ton and cast into prison. T h y were tried
before the Court, by who , Clarke .was
fined twentrpounds, Holm s thirty, . an: —
Crandon five; or each to be ell whipped.'
They 911. refused to pay i eir fines, and
were t remanded back to prison. li_l
Clarke's friends paid his finip without 1117.
consent. Mr.'Crandall was eleased upon
his promise of appearing , at' the next
Court, but linwas not informed of the
time until it was over, and they exact
his fine of the. keeper of the prison. , Buti
Mr. Holmes woept-in:prison till Sept.,
when the sentence of the law was execu
ted upon him in, the most -cruel_ and ufi
feeling manner. 'ln a manuscript of. JosJ
eph Jenks,Governoi4if. Rhode Island, it
is stinted t hat Mr. - Holmes was whipped
thirty stripes in such an unmereiful man
.rer,, that fok three weeks he could take no
'rest bfit'as4ie lay upon his knees and el.
bows, not being able to suffer a - ny part of
his,body to touch ;the bed „whereon he
lay. Mr. Jzlolmeg gave &narrative of his
sufferings,in which he shows the strength
of faithltlt bore him up in anticipationof
the appalling scene before him: . 3 _.‘ And
when I ? heard the voice -of my 'keeper
,comefily me, and taking my testament to
'my hand, I went along with him to the
place of execution where many spectators
had come to see me punished, whereupon,
I said,' men, .brethren,
..fitthers and coun
trymen, I beseech you give me leave to
speak it''''few words, because :I am here to
seal with' my -blood, if . ..God' give , me
strength, that which 1.. hold and practice
in regard to the word of GOA, and the tes
timony of Jeans ; and am ready to defend
it by the word, and to dispute that point
with any that -shall come forth. Mr.,New
el saidohts was no time for dispute. Then
said I, Ido desire to give an accoun of
the faith and ordeahold, and this lid
I I
three times-; but in comes Mr. Flint- nd
saititto the executioner, fellow, do'thine
; office, for this , fellow would' but make a
long speech -' to delude the people. So I,
-being resolved to speak, told the people,
that which I suffer for, is the word of
God testimony of Jesus Christ, and f
asked for a pubii&dispute, but they, would ,
not grant it. 14t, While ley executioner
was- pulling off my clothes, I continued
speaking—telling Ahem 'that I had 'so
learned the gospel of Christ, that for all.
Boston 'I would not- give my body into
their hands thus (.o be' bruised upon any
other account, yet upon this, I would not,
give-a hundreth part of a penny to free it
ont,of their hands.. And as the men be
gan to Jay the strokes_ upon thy back; I
said to the people that 'though my flesh
might fail, and my spirit fail,. yet tnyGed
would not fail. So it pleased , the Lord to
some in, and so to fill my heart and
tongue as a vessel full, that with an audi
-ble voice I broke forth, praying unto the
Lord not to lay this sin to _their charge,
and as the strokes fell upon me I had such
a manifesption of God's presence as I can
not with the tongue express, though the
triad was striking with all hi& strength,
(yea, spitting in his'hands three times, as
the spect&tors ,affirmed,) with a three cor
ded whip, giving me ,theresith thirty
strokes. When he had loosc:d me from
1 -
the post, having joyfulness in my liedrt by
-the 'presence of,, GA,. told the magis
trates, you Enire'atrUok the as With roses,,
and I pray God if may not be laid to your
charge." Warrants were
.issued out a
gainst thirteen men whose only crime
was in . showing - some emotions of sympa
thy towards this innocent sufferer, and
they were fined and imprisoned.
' Ye who have shed tears over the reci
tal of the sufferings of "Uncle Tom," th e
poor black man of Alm - South, will surely
feel a touch of sorrow fo r that poor white
slave of religions intoler ance in the North.
The chrihtian heroisni of the last reminds
me of the noble words of the first, so beau
tifully deicribed by , Mrs. Stowe, whose ini t
agination needed-4hot,to wander far fret'
home for pictures of cruelty and oppres
sion.. The history of her own New Eng
land would have furnished' her examples
enough without resorting to fiction: ' ' ,
Many of the puritans . remonstrated
against these cruelties. of their brethren.—
Sir Richard Saltonstall, a magistrate of
the Court then in England, wrote to Mr.,
Cotton and Mr. Wilson as follows:
"It doth -grieve my spirit to hear what
sad things are reported daily of your
atftl persecutions in New England,
as that you fine, whip and kb - prison men
for their consciences.:Truly, friends; this
your way of compelling men in matters
of-worship is to make them sin, and many
are Made hypocrites thereby, for fear of
punishment. These truel ways have laid
you very low in the hearts of the saints:"
In 1648 Margaret Jones was hung for
witchcraft, and in 1656,others were exe
cuted -for the same. it vas enacted the
same year that any commandant of a ies
serwho shall bring a quaker into the col t
ony, shall pay a fine of hundred pounds,
and all quakers arriving in the , colony
from any place whatsoever; shall be forth
with committed ',to the houie of correc
tion, and at their entrance' be severely
whipped, and by the muster thereof' be
keptoonstantly rit•Wrirk„ and none suffer
ed to converse or speak with them during
the time of their imprisOnment. The next
year it was, provided that if a quaker re
turn-into 'the colony after banishment, • he
was to have one of • his ears cut off, and
if returned again the other was to be
treated in the same way; if he-came back
a third time his tongue was to be bored
through with a hot iron, and then if he
did not 'depart immediately be was to suf
fer death. ' In 1659 two men were put to
death under this-law, and in 1660 one man
and one woman were hung. - The woman
Was Mary Dyer. She was hung on Bos
tOn Common, June Ist, for being a disci
ple of Anne gutchinson. She departed
from Maisachfisetts upon the enactment
of the law against her sect, btft soon after
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returned on purpose to offer up her life.— •
She was arrested arid, sent to prison full
of joy, wrote from the jail a remonstrance;
in which She pronounced her persecutors
disobedient and deceived, was reprieved
after being led forth to execution and the
rope being put around her neck, and was
against her • will conveyed out of the colo
ny. She speedily returned, and suffered
as swilling martyr. • •
Surely the author' of the "Minister's
Wooing," in her first work of fiction,
Must havo drawn her *traders - from her
own section of country.; for the words of
Obadiah Holmes are put into the month
_of Uncle Toni, and the heroism displayed
by Mary Dyer is credited to • a slave •wo
man South instead of the liberty-loving_
State of Massachusetts. These are the re:.
ligious liberties the people of the 'United -
States will enjoy, when the pr,inciples of
puritanism and abolitionism bccomej tri
umphant in our land ; and we say again,
" woe to the inhibitants" if the Sun of
Democracy rises 120 more upon this dis
tracted country. b•--
[Who brought Religious Liberty to our
- country 7in next„ paper.] .• •
Letterliom the 171thti.
Ckup MA..vartELD, May 1,180.
DE&J H.--I. received yonr letter and I
can assure you I . was 'glad to hear from
home once more. t
. ,
I amwell as usual, only,l am tired and
sleepyvand a little, angry, too:. 1., hive
just . 6:Una off froth, 48 hours duty; and
what do you think it vita for?. I. will tell
you: .1 s tecause-I went ontL,on dres s ,
parade with my boots s - greatied instead .of
blacked. , 'This is some of our pious - Capt.
Rogers' works He says that after thik
'if we do not appea - dress parade with'
blacked boots' an . whit gleVes, we Will
•be court-martialed.and a i onfli'S pay de- F.:
'ducted. • White glaves ar something I.
nler hive worn, and I think. it will taki
as many'aS, three men mull corp Oral to -
get , thetn on me. Are we, soldiers .of
countryi to put up withi more-abuse from
our officers than the ne'gro ever did from'-
his mister ?!' -• E.
. ,
Smite -may, Wonder why - our army does
not prespet...,l would' ask such 'men to
come rand see' tbr themselves. I think I ' ,
can see. We have thousands of men in
the field, field, spending their time the same as
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we are. , Officers putting on airs, and Ma--
king-money out. of the government, and
pot caring for 'the .country. • I spent my,*, i
48 hours at the Colonel's quarters, and all
• my or s dOs were to salute - .officers. That
is about all we are drilled ,on. Do you
'think that polished boots and-white gloves .
Will ever whip rebels? I think
While we are spending our time in. that
'way, they are drilling with sword and bay
onet, and building fortifications.. :1. - think
,playing the gentleman and.:Soldiering are
two different branches. I think . the're,
should\ be less of the former anditore of
the latter, if we expect to put down rebell
ion. More anon. t
(We suggest
. to M. that if the army reg
ulations require gloves, that they should
be worn.)T
From Col..Welstling.,
Headquarters, Deep Creek, Va. )
April 27th,1863. f
MISS BLACKSIAII
. 1:—In 'acknowledging
your of the 14th, permit me to assure you .
that your communication of • advising '••
me of the. kindness of your.societT to any
regiment, in sending delicacies &; comforts
to the sick, would have beer proirtiltly ac
kriowledged by me i save for severe illnesi
from which I have recently..reco•ered.' ,
Previous to the receptiowor your soci
ety's offering, an unhealthy locathin had
sadly increased the number of sick in my
regiment. Cninforts were few, - and deli
cacies unknown and hence your kindness
was the more highly appreciated: Capt.
Rogers, to whom they were coniighed,
distributed a portion of them among the
sick; and save the balance intotthe Blinds
-of our asststint surgeons, who, it was ma:
sonable to suppose, could more judiciously
disnense them. *, •,* - *
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n conclusion , a owl Me to extend to
you 'and your society, niy own, and the
thanks of my officers and men, for the
kindness which prompted yon to remember
their sacrifices and , relieve their suffering
in sickness. With' much respect, -I have
the himor.to be, YOur Obt Serut,
GEO. B. WIEST4NO'
Col. 177th Reg. Pa: Ittantry. •
Sabbath School Soavetition:
. The Sussluebanna County Sabbath
School Association, will: hold its second
annual meeting, at the Borough of Susq's
Depot, on Wednesday and Thursday, the
3d and 4th days of - June next. Commen•
mencing on Wednesday at 11 a: m. Del
egatom the Schools, and all friends
"of these, throughout the county, are
earnestly invited to attend and give their
influence in promoting tbe:Object.
S. B. CHASE, President.
A. CuAmmuuni - Rec. Sec.
May Soth, 1863..
Sabbath School Convention.
the D. L. & W. Railroad ,"will carry
delegates to the meeting of the Susq. Co.
Sabbath Sch Col Association at Susquehan.
na Depot, next month, for their full fan
going, arid free returning, front Hciphot
torn, Montrose, and ifilfOrd,,to Great
Bend, on their presentin prop& creden
tials that they
, are such, to the agents at
those stations. HALsEy,
May 15th: Cor. Secretsq•
medical Society.
The semi-annual meeting of the Susq'a'
County Medical Society will be held at the
house of Dr. E.. N. Smith in Susquehanna
Depot at o'clock, a. m., ori Wednesday
the 3d day June, 1863. All regular-prae
tionsers are cordially invited to attend..
2 ' ti C. C. HALSEY, See.
Notice k —The Mite: Soviet will met
at 'Mrs. Albert Chamberlin's,;?day 19th,
and' at the; house of Mrs. C. D. Lathrop,
May 26th.
An engraver and a lithographic printer
have reoently''been brought to. trial in'
Sheffield, England, for counterteiting
$ nited States treasury . nntes. $30,000 in
$lO note's were found in their possession.
Their detection was brought about by tbei
curiosity of an apprentice, whose _suspi
cion was aroused byithe'preoatitionstakeu
hi his employer against, observation.
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K. E..SEARLE,